{"id":224,"date":"2020-11-04T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:38:11","slug":"discussion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Change the Stakes <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">encourages a sort of banking method to teaching (even though they never explicitly mention this) as they offer alternatives to standardized testing on their website. Paulo Freire\u2019s banking method \u201cdescribes an oppressive process that positions teachers as the \u201cdepositors\u201d of knowledge into passive student \u2018receptacles\u2019\u201d (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bybee, E. R, Introduction).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Instead of giving students information that they must regurgitate on command through a test, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Change the Stakes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> argues that schools can use portfolios to measure a students growth or a performance based assessment (which is being used in a number of New York public schools). Eric Ruiz Bybee describes his experiences with standardized testing as a teacher in a New York City school and connects them to the need for the banking method in schools. When students are not treated as \u201cbuckets\u201d they learn a lot more. Through my research, I have learned that organizing is a lot more difficult than it looks. I was struck by how much work has gone into the opt out movement and how unsuccessful it would be if it weren\u2019t for the many people involved. One theme I\u2019ve noticed is that for a movement (such as the opt out one) to be successful, organizers need to reference and use other organizations who are rallying for the same cause, to make progress. There is power in numbers and that is shown in the organization strategies of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Change the Stakes. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The organization had help from, the national opt out movement, Jesse Hagopian\u2019s work, and indirect inspiration from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This work is continuing to happen today, meaning that there are no \u201cconclusions\u201d so to speak, but parents who have decided to opt their children out of testing have been able to do it successfully. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change the Stakes encourages a sort of banking method to teaching (even though they never explicitly mention this) as they offer alternatives to standardized testing on their website. Paulo Freire\u2019s banking method \u201cdescribes an oppressive process that positions teachers as the \u201cdepositors\u201d of knowledge into passive student \u2018receptacles\u2019\u201d (Bybee, E. R, Introduction). Instead of giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}